Together with our donors, BCIT Foundation helps to ensure today’s students develop the skills and experience they need to be tomorrow’s innovators, creators, and leaders.
Your generosity will enable BCIT to fund the following priority areas:
- Infrastructure renewal to further BCIT’s reputation as a leading educational institution
- Access to and affordability of education to help ease the financial burden some of our students may face
- Excellence in teaching so our students receive the hands-on, leading-edge education for which BCIT is known.
Read more in our most recent annual reports:
2021/22 Annual Report
2020/21 Annual Report
2019/20 Annual Report
2018/19 Annual Report
Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors is a dedicated group of volunteers who encourage and steward the contributions we receive from our donors. The Board is instrumental in helping us promote awareness of BCIT’s economic and social benefits to the community and beyond.
Anthony Barke
Chair, BCIT Foundation
Principal, Anthony Barke Inc.
Tony Barke has helped many clients resolve commercial disputes. Skilled in civil litigation matters, contract claims and economic loss calculations, he has been an expert witness in the BC Supreme Court, BC Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Canada, BC Securities Commission and various arbitration hearings. Tony is the former Senior Partner and Advisory Leader at Deloitte, Vancouver. He has worked in public and non-public companies in sectors including finance, construction, government, manufacturing, and forest products. Tony is the Chair and Board member of the Audit Committee of CTBC Bank Corp (Canada) and BCIT’s Board of Directors.
Wayne Berg
Secretary/Treasurer, BCIT Foundation
Member, BCIT INSPIRE Campaign Cabinet
Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking, Coast Capital Savings
Wayne Berg has been with Coast Capital Savings for the past 12 years, presently in a senior support role assisting national expansion projects, partnerships, and growth ambitions in commercial real estate and corporate space. He has also led the Commercial Banking Group with small business ventures, business banking, commercial real estate, equipment financing, and cash management. He brings close to 40 years of commercial, retail banking, and wealth management experience. Wayne is a member of BCIT’s INSPIRE Campaign Cabinet and serves as Secretary and Treasurer for BCIT Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Guy Elliott
Director, BCIT Foundation
Acting Vice President and Corporate Controller, Teck Resources Ltd.
Guy Elliott is the Acting Vice President and Corporate Controller at Teck Resources, one of Canada’s largest mining companies headquartered in Vancouver. With an operations, engineering, and accounting background, he bridges the gap between finance and operations at Teck. He is a Canadian Chartered Accountant (CA-CPA), holds a graduate degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, and has a Metals and Material Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia. He is a member of several volunteer committees and is a Director on BCIT’s Board of Governors.